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ConocoPhillips Environmental Field Study Summaries (2020-2024)
Each year ConocoPhillips conducts scientific field studies throughout the Colville River and northeastern National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPR-A) on the North Slope of... -
NSSI Scenarios GIS Data: Prioritizing Science Needs Through Participatory Scenarios for Energy and Resource Development on the North Slope and Adjacent Seas.
This record contains the data used by the North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) scenario process. These data sets are listed in the Alaska DataCatalog. The data sets are... -
Wild Fish and Salmon Subsistence Harvest Assessment in Selected North Slope Borough Communities
These reports summarize subsistence use of fish resources for selected North Slope communities. -
Harvest and Use of Wild Foods
These reports summarize the results of research conducted on the harvest and use of wild food by North Slope and Interior communities. The 2016 report includes Utqiagvik,... -
Oil in Ice: Transport, Fate, and Potential Exposure
The purpose of this project has been to provide a basis and methodology for estimating routes and magnitudes of potential environmental exposures and concentrations of oil... -
Subsistence Harvest Documentation
The North Slope Borough has made a commitment to develop information about the region’s subsistence harvest and to share some of this information with state and federal... -
Study of Sharing Networks to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Local Communities to Oil and Gas Development Impacts in Arctic Alaska (AK-05-04a)
This study documented and analyzed social networks of sharing and cooperation that are part of Alaska Native subsistence-cash economies, and explored the potentail vulnerability... -
Subsistence Study for North Aleutian Basin (AK-08-06)
This study serves the final report for the North Aleutian Basin Subsistence Study on the people and subsistence activities in the villages around the proposed North Aleutian... -
Subsistence Use within the North Slope Borough
This map product details the extent and type of subsistence activities occurring within the North Slope Borough. -
COMIDA: Impact Monitoring for Offshore Subsistence Hunting (AK-08-04)
Monitoring efforts were initiated in 2009 and focused on offshore subsistence hunting for key marine mammals (bowhead and beluga whales, walrus, seals, and polar bears) in the... -
Aggregate Effects Research and Environmental Mitigation Monitoring of Oil Industry Operations in the Vicinity of Nuiqsut (AK-08)
Over the years, agencies, industry, and local residents have adopted measures from documented studies or worked to develop new mitigation measures intended to lessen the impacts... -
Gas Hydrate Dynamics on the Alaskan Beaufort Continental Slope: Modeling and Field Characterization
The goal of this research is to assess the contemporary state of the upper continental slope in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea to determine if gas hydrates are in equilibrium with... -
Caribou Health Assessment
The goals of this guide are to provide anyone spending time outdoors with basic information about caribou health conditions that may be observed during wildlife viewing,... -
North Slope Decision Support for Water Resource Planning and Management (DE-NT0005683)
Water is an essential component of the North Slope environment. Local communities use lakes and rivers for access to subsistence resources and to sustain those same resources... -
Village-based Walrus Studies
Working cooperatively with the Eskimo Walrus Commission and walrus hunters from Alaskan coastal communities, we designed a study to deploy satellite transmitters and conduct... -
Cape Thompson muskox population census
Muskoxen are indigenous to Northwest Alaska; however, they disappeared before or during the 19th century. Although there is ample evidence of several genera of muskoxen in... -
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) is a study describing the ongoing climate change in the Arctic and its consequences: rising temperatures, loss of sea ice,... -
TAPS Pipeline
Route alignment provided by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company via the State Pipeline Coordinator's Office and the Alaska Geospatial Data Clearing House (see link below). -
Initial Development of a Plan for Monitoring the Effects of Oil and Gas Exploration and Development in the NPR-A on Molting Geese
Initial Development of a Plan for Monitoring the Effects of Oil and Gas Exploration and Development in the NPR-A on Molting Geese -
NPRA - Current, Relinquished, and Expired Tracts
This map product depicts the status of various lease tracts within the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska.